Equivalence and strong equivalence between the sparsest and least _1-norm nonnegative solutions of linear systems and their applications

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Equivalence and strong equivalence between the sparsest and least \(\ell 1\)-norm nonnegative solutions of linear systems and their applications




Abstract: Many practical problems can be formulated as l0-minimization problems with nonnegativity constraints, which seek the sparsest nonnegative solutions to underdetermined linear systems. Recent study indicates that l1-minimization is efficient for solving some classes of l0-minimization problems. From a mathematical point of view, however, the understanding of the relationship between l0- and l1-minimization remains incomplete. In this paper, we further discuss several theoretical questions associated with these two problems. For instance, how to completely characterize the uniqueness of least l1-norm nonnegative solutions to a linear system, and is there any alternative matrix property that is different from existing ones, and can fully characterize the uniform recovery of K-sparse nonnegative vectors? We prove that the fundamental strict complementarity theorem of linear programming can yield a necessary and sufficient condition for a linear system to have a unique least l1-norm nonnegative solution. This condition leads naturally to the so-called range space property (RSP) and the `full-column-rank' property, which altogether provide a broad understanding of the relationship between l0- and l1-minimization. Motivated by these results, we introduce the concept of the `RSP of order K' that turns out to be a full characterization of the uniform recovery of K-sparse nonnegative vectors. This concept also enables us to develop certain conditions for the non-uniform recovery of sparse nonnegative vectors via the so-called weak range space property.



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